Crest Academy Prospectus | Page 6

LEARNING and TEACHING At The Crest Academy, we understand that outstanding Learning and Teaching is a priority to allow all students to achieve their full potential. All of our teachers, plan engaging and exciting lessons, focused around our ‘Crest Essentials’. These are key ingredients, which we believe need to be present in every lesson, to ensure that students make outstanding progress. Each Curriculum Area, has planned engaging and exciting programmes of learning for each term, to ensure that learning time is maximised. Our Curriculum Areas, are staffed with hard working and committed staff, who have strong subject knowledge along with a real belief in our vision of ‘every student ready for university, every student a leader’. We know that it is important for our teachers to continually develop theirr classroom craft and with this in mind we have invested in a clear programme of development to ensure that our staff can be the very best that they can be, and support your son/daughter to achieve their full potential. Each Curriculum Area has a ‘Lead Practitioner’ who is an outstanding classroom teacher, who’s primary role is to work with other colleagues to constantly reflect and refine their classroom practice, ensuring that learning is maximised for all students. All of our classroom practitioners, also benefit from weekly ‘learning and teaching coaching’ giving all teachers an opportunity to collaborate, share ideas and work together to make their lessons as exciting and innovative as possible. Teachers receive regular feedback on their classroom practice and participate in weekly professional studies programmes to further improve their skills. 6